Teams from Asia, Africa and the Americas flew to Germany before the tournament to get used to the German climate. Most of the European teams are still training in their home countries.

As the World Cup approaches, more and more fans flock to Germany, who come here in advance to see the German scenery, taste German beer, and watch their favorite teams train. The training in Brazil has received a lot of attention from fans and the media, and it is a team that has been called the strongest in the history of Brazil.

The World Cup is also a media event, with a large number of media reporters coming to Germany, and the media war has already begun before the game, and various news is presented to the fans through the media.

"Ronaldinho doesn't come home at night, drinking in a bar with a girl!"

"Nesta left the team with a back injury, Italy lost a central defender!"

"Raul had a verbal altercation with Aragonés training!"

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The French team has been training in France in a low-key manner, and Tang Jue's state has recovered to seventy. In addition to his regular training, he is also training his secret weapon – free kicks. According to Xiao Feifei's assessment, his goal rate in the game has increased to 30%, and Tang is absolutely very satisfied with this result.

On June 7, the French team ushered in the third opponent of the warm-up match - the Chinese team. The venue of the competition is Giophilori in Saint-Etienne? Quecard Stadium.

During the warm-up, Tang Jue took the initiative to come to the half of the Chinese team and shook hands with head coach Zhu Guanghu. Tang Jue shook hands and hugged a number of Chinese team players.

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Tang Jue finally started, and he partnered Henry. The players in the midfield are the same as in the Danish game. This is the first time in the three warm-up games that Tang Jue, Henry, and Zidane have started at the same time. After the game, the French media believed that Domenech wanted to test the power of the "three musketeers" and make the most final preparations for the upcoming World Cup.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the game started on time.

The French team took advantage of the strength and firmly controlled the midfield. Under Zidane's dispatch, the French team launched an attack on the Chinese team from two wings. In the fifth minute, Henry had a chance to shoot. Under the block of Zhao Xuri, Henry's shot hit the side-netting.

Thierry Henry's shot opened the curtain for France's attack, and in the 12th minute of the first half, Zinedine Zidane made a clever pass in front of the penalty area. Stuff the ball into the penalty area. Tang Jue was like lightning, rushing up, and as soon as he took two steps, he was put down by Ji Mingyi. Penalty kick. Ji Mingyi received a yellow card.

Zinedine Zidane was France's first choice for a penalty. The referee blew the whistle. Zidane slowly ran towards the football. "Smack!" There was a crunch, and after a crunch, the ball flew to the left side of the goal. The goalkeeper of the Chinese team, Li Leilei, made a brave save. Save Zidane's penalty off the touchline.

Zidane's penalty was not scored, and the French team was not too frustrated, and they continued to put strong pressure on the Chinese team. In the twenty-second minute of the first half, Tang Jue broke through Zhao Xuri in front of the penalty area, and just as Ji Mingyi was about to step forward to block, he passed the football to Henry.

After getting the ball, Henry, facing Xu Yunlong who pounced, suddenly passed the football into the penalty area, and the ball passed behind Ji Mingyi. The French fans on the sidelines were excited, and in Milan, Tang Jue and Ronnie were a golden pair, and they often assisted each other in the game. Now Tang Jue and Henry are also in the game, and they have also established a connection.

Tang Jue rushed to the football like lightning, and he was about to score his first goal in the warm-up game. At this time, the left central defender Zhang Yaokun was almost on the same parallel line as Tang Jue. When Tang Jue raised his right foot and was about to shoot, Zhang Yaokun's center of gravity dropped, and he wanted to block Tang Jue's shot with his foot!

"Smack!" With a crisp sound, Tang Jue's right foot kicked the football fiercely, and the football flew towards the left side of the goal like a sharp arrow!

The brave Li Leilei saved Zidane's penalty ten minutes ago, and at this moment he kicked the ground hard with the outside of his right foot, flying out like a hungry tiger. "Poof!" With a bang, Li Leilei blocked the football out of the door!

The ball bounced into the box, and Henry on the left suddenly started and he was about to make a follow-up shot. Two lunges later, Henry's right foot kicked the football. Li Leilei is not a world-level goalkeeper, his second reaction is not so fast, and he is still on the turf at the moment. In the blink of an eye, the ball burrows into the net. France led 1-0.

It was Henry's fourth goal in three warm-up games, and Henry looked calm after the goal. Perhaps the gap between the strength of the Chinese team and the French team is too big, and he thinks there is no need to be excited. Tang Jue still failed to break the goal drought.

With the score behind, the Chinese team launched a counterattack. In the 35th minute of the first half, Zheng Zhi shot from a distance in front of the penalty area and completed the first shot of the Chinese team. The ball flew two meters outside the left post and flew off the baseline.

In the 42nd minute of the first half, France won a corner kick opportunity, and Thuram beat Ji Mingyi and scored the football into the goal. France led 2-0 and ended the first half with this scoreline.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again, and in the first minute, Tang Jue almost broke through the goal. Malouda took Zidane's pass, broke through from the wing, and sent the ball into the penalty area with a cross five meters from the baseline. Tang Jue took a step forward and leaned on Ji Mingyi to push the shot. However, Li Leilei blocked the football from the bottom line again.

Obviously, Li Leilei wanted to prove himself in front of Tang Jue. Tang Jue shook his head, and the feeling of shooting was still not at its best.

A minute later, Xu Yunlong crossed from the right, and Zheng Zhi made a wonderful pass, but Han Peng stopped the ball in the middle and missed the opportunity. In the seventh minute of the second half, the Chinese team played a series of beautiful passes, Zheng Zhimiao passed to the left, Tao Wei cut inside and was tripped by Thuram, but the referee did not give a penalty. In the twelfth minute of the second half, the Chinese team cleared a corner kick in the backfield, and Hao Junmin failed to cross Zhao Xuri in a quick counterattack and missed the opportunity.

In the twentieth minute of the second half, Zidane made a long pass in the backfield, Tang Jue flew like a sharp arrow on the right side, and unloaded the football with his right foot, just as he was about to use his speed to shake off Zhao Junzhe next to him, Zhao Junzhe made a flying shovel and kicked Tang Jue's supporting leg with his right foot, and Tang Jue fell to the ground with a bang.

Tang Jue held back the severe pain and did not let out a scream. Domenech's heart, which was standing in the command area, sank suddenly, the World Realm Cup was about to begin, if ......

The players of the French team quit and they surrounded Zhao Junzhe. Conflict is about to happen. The referee hurriedly pulled out a red card to resolve the conflict.

Domenech replaced Tang Jue with Cisse, and the team doctor hurriedly stepped forward to check Tang Jue's injury. Tang absolutely shook his head at the team doctor, saying that his injury was not serious. After the injury fell to the ground, he asked Xiao Feifei to check his injury, and Xiao Feifei told him that the lateral collateral ligament of the ankle joint was torn by 12%, and according to his recovery ability, it would be completely healed in two days.

Zhao Junzhe's flying shovel made the smell of gunpowder on the field stronger and stronger. People are constantly falling on the turf. Domenech had to replace Zidane with Ribery. Replace Thierry Henry with Trezeguet. He didn't want to be attenuated at this time, and in the 02 World Cup, the defending champions were eliminated in the group stage due to Zinedine Zidane's injury. Domenech didn't want this tragedy to happen again.

However. What he didn't expect was that the tragedy still happened. The thirtieth minute of the second half. When Cisse breaks down the right. Kicked in the right heel by Zheng Zhi, Cisse fell to the ground in pain and was replaced by Wiltord. Cisse was treated on the sidelines for about 10 minutes after coming off the pitch. The most Lu was carried on a stretcher and put in an ambulance, and Tang Jue followed him into the ambulance, and the two were taken to the hospital.

In the 35th minute of the second half, the Chinese team counterattacked, Zheng Zhi broke through on the right side of the penalty area and was tripped by Abidal, the referee awarded a penalty, Zheng Zhi scored with a low shot, and the score became 2-1. Before the end of the game, Wiltord got a cross from Ribery in the box and made it three to one.

In a warm-up match, the two generals were injured, and Domenech's heart was full of sadness, and their injuries were still unknown. Leaving the arena in a hurry, Domenech rushed to the hospital without even attending the press conference.

Cisse was too injured to compete in the World Cup, and Domenech called Manchester United teenager Saha into the squad urgently. In Domenech's mind, Cisse and Henry are a striker option, with Cisse on the left and Henry playing as a central striker. Now this option is scrapped.

In the three warm-up games, Thierry Henry was undoubtedly the best performer in the forward line, scoring four goals. Tang's performance did not match the title of the top scorer in Serie A and the Champions League, with nothing to be achieved in three games and only one assist. The sarcasm of the Spanish media was full of ridicule, and even the team newspaper expressed concern about Tang Jue's state.

The British Daily Mail summed up the three warm-up matches of the French team:

Perhaps even Domenech himself did not have a clear goal or answer in mind. Can such an aging French national team achieve good results in the World Cup in Germany? In the three warm-up matches, France defeated Mexico, Denmark and China. Judging from the process of training and competition, France's form is really average.

Victories in three warm-up games cannot hide the fact that France are not in good form. Among them, the most obvious is that Don, the top scorer in the qualifiers, has not scored a goal in three games, and his form is terrible.

The French media affirmed France's results in the warm-up matches, but did not expect much from the team's good results in the German World Cup.

France is too old, and the average age of the starting lineup in the French warm-up match is as high as 30 years old!

Aging is not only reflected in the intuitive numbers of age, but also magnified by the state of the players on the field. In the warm-up matches against Mexico, Denmark and China, Zidane has revealed such a message, and he seems to be difficult to become the engine of the whole team's attack due to his lack of physical strength; More often than not, he had to drop back into midfield and rarely reverted to his magical dribbling once he got the ball. Zinedine Zidane, who is approaching the age of 34, has repeatedly claimed that he is fully in shape, but there is clearly a clear gap between aspirations and reality.

Historical data shows that no other team has ever relied on a group of 30-year-old veterans to win the World Cup with the exception of Brazil in 1962. After Jacquet, both Lemaire and Santini looked to the 1998 champions as the core of their team.

As a result, the average age in France was nearly 30 years old, which became the "peak" period of the average age in France after the Second World War. But the problem now is that the average age of a good, mature team should be between 25-27 years old. How can France, with such a high average age, do well in Germany?

In the three warm-up games, France scored more goals in each game, but the role of the striker players was not prominent. With the exception of Thierry Henry, the rest of the players were mediocre. The new Serie A and Champions League goalscorer and best player Don has not scored a goal in three games and is in a slump.

Cisse's unexpected injury has left Domenech without a striker partnership, and in his blueprint he prefers to use Thierry Henry as a central striker and then let Cisse break through on the flanks to create chances. However, Cisse was seriously injured in the match against China and was confirmed to miss the German World Cup, so Domenech had to change his formation.

"The Sun" said that in the German World Cup, Domenech is likely to let Don and Henry play double arrows, and such a forward configuration has always been hoped for by the French media.

In the Chinese team's game, Domenech let the "three musketeers" start at the same time, but in the game, the three did not show the tacit understanding that people expected. Perhaps, it will take time to test whether Domenech can replicate Ancelotti's "horror trio." ”。

In the first warm-up match of the World Cup, France defeated Mexico 1-0 in Saint-Denis; In the second warm-up match in Lens, France beat Denmark 2-0; In the last warm-up match, France beat China 3-1 in Saint-Etienne. Such a performance should be commendable, but is six goals satisfactory?

The Sun concludes that France should be strong in attack, but the team has not always been able to translate those advantages into goals. Just like in the match against China, France had a clear advantage in possession of the ball, but the last team scored only three goals, squandering at least three good chances to score. How can such an attack satisfy French fans?

Many French media have pointed out that France's main problem today is not on the front line, but on Thuram. It is somewhat understandable from the fact that he is not in the same state as before, and for what is the hero of the 1998 World Cup France, he is in danger of being reduced to a substitute at Juventus. While they didn't concede a goal in the warm-up matches against Mexico and Denmark, France did in the match against China!

This is somewhat incredible, as China is the weakest of the three warm-up opponents. AFP pointed out that if Domenech does not restructure the team's defense, it will be more difficult for France to keep a goal against strong teams.

Other than that, the French players don't seem to be too harmonious. Butters and Cooper are good examples. Although from the perspective of competitive state, Kupe is obviously better than Butters, but the latter has the "support" of Zidane and others, so he has secured the position of the main goalkeeper of the national team.

For this reason, Kupe even left the training camp for a while, but under the persuasion of the assistant coach, Kupe returned to the French national team. According to the newspaper La Diemeral, although Domenech is the manager, there are many times when he needs to look at the faces of some of the veterans in the team. How can such a "disunited" French national team achieve good results in Germany?

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On June 8, the British gamble announced the latest odds to win the championship, Brazil, England and Argentina are still in the top three, and the French team has dropped from fourth to seventh place. Even French fans have expressed their dissatisfaction with the French team, with surveys showing that nearly half of fans have no confidence in France's victory.

According to the analysis of the team report, this is inseparable from Tang Jue's performance, and the sluggish state has made French fans disappointed in him. Tang Jue was originally a proud capital for French fans. (To be continued......)